@nullagent If I get THAT kind of clip, from that point on I assume I am a target and will either watch the escape routes if I have "home field advantage" or bail out at the first opportunity if not. Having the bike is a major advantage in this.

Only once did cops succeeded in stopping me at a protest where I potentially had (but actually missed) the clips that would have shot down their later courtroom lies. It was too dark for the camera I had but the cops didn't know that. Our 15 person patrol had engaged a Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS/vivisection) contractor exec with a night home demo. We thought this was a suprise but it was not. This was one week after a City Council member had blown up at us on seeing us near another home demo, so they were on hair trigger alert. We were ambushed by 75 cops and the target's security guard husband. He charged out the door and later lied in court saying we had charged into the house. My camera was trained on this, but getting nothing in the dark.

Cops went after me immediatly. I hopped on the bike and sprinted away, pouring on full power to that road bike under max adrenaline. Then I found out that in this remote location off Military Road there was no cover to be found. The chase lasted about 15 minutes and shut down Military Road. Even a blown rear tire didn't stop me. Cops were not permitted to ram, so they had to sprint ahead in their cars, then try to jump out on me but I expected that and dodged them every time. Riding on the sidewalk limited their pullin choices to driveways. Finally, with power running out, I realized I was not able to break contact this way, and decided to head into the woods, not knowing about the 35 foot cliff the trail went over! I was tackled 5 feet from the edge, a cop tried to knee me out and failed, and in the end they decided not to arrest or charge me because this had gotten way too hot for them on a protest matter. They feared retribution from other protesters if anything bad happened to me, and realized the close escape they had just had. Once again I had effectively bought the pot in a casino of cops and courts.

Had I gone over that edge with or without that cop hanging on, I would have been killed by an out of control landing on stones 35 feet down. That in turn would have brought out news trucks, getting HLS and their contractor a shitload of bad press. Probably the contractor in question would have dumped HLS under that storm of bad publicity. That in turn would have cut off HLS's access to chemicals and lab equipment, probably killing the lab in 2009 instead of 2023! This would have been worth it to me and most certainly not to the cops. No arrest and no tampering with the camera or any of the evidence on the camera card. The camera in question turned out to be worthless in such a dark place, but that one's on me.